[Artemis Webb]

I'm happiest for the Pirates. They've suffered long enough. Yes, I know the Cubs have suffered much longer, but perhaps it's meant to be. :)

[Artemis Webb]

THE BASEBALL PING LIST

This is a medium volume ping list during the baseball season and a low volume ping list when all life stops in late October.
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[doug from upland]

In the ultimate show of forgiveness and redemption, the Cubbies have offered Steve Bartman a couple free seats in the front row down the left field line. BWAHAHAHAHA

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

HOLY COW!

[usconservative]

I'm a White Sox fan and I have to say that watching the Cubs play this year was really alot of fun! There is so much young talent on that team and they've really gelled as a team this year. The turn-around has been remarkably quick and as I said, quite alot of fun to watch! Really like Joe Maddon, he's done a great job with this team. The sky's the limit for them.

Congratulations Cubs Fans!

[Bob]

While my Giants may have been eliminated from a wild card slot, the Dodgers have not clinched the NL West. That could happen any day now but it hasn’t happened yet.

[Lee Enfield]

Isn’t there a growing middle eastern population in Chicago?
Doesn’t the curse have something to do with a goat?
THIS COULD BE THE YEAR!!!

[visualops]

Mets wow. Used to watch them years ago when I lived in NYC. My daughter was born the day they won the series in ‘86 (was also ralph Kiner’s birthday). So I’m in recovery room and I said you gotta get me up to the room and in front of the tv before game 7 starts LOL!

[AnotherUnixGeek]

Cubs clinch first playoff spot since '08 with Giants' elimination (Mets,Jays,Pirates in too!)

Not the Giants' year - it's odd-numbered. Next year, look out. Seriously though, they need at least one more quality starter behind Baumgarner.

[ccmovrwc]

Great Scott!

[God luvs America]

LETS GO METS!!!!

[tophat9000]

Well. everything else in the news points to we are in the “last days” so why not this...

[jonascord]

My grandmother moved to Chicago when Franz-Joseph was still Emperor of her home town. For some inexplicable reason, starting in the 20's, she always got season tickets to Wrigley Field.

In the 50's and 60's we'd take the Belmont Avenue bus, then on stop south on what was then the Englewood Line. She'd sit there, with a single cup of beer, and a cigar in a green jade holder, and study the game, focused like a Buddist monk. Only weekday games. (She thought cheering wasn't 'proper'.) Hey, she was a nutty Austrian lady.

It's been over a century. Please, just this once?

[JPG]

[VeniVidiVici]

Cubs are in the playoffs?

We are truly in End of Times.

[RayChuang88]

I still think, however, that the Cubs from now on to be really successful contenders, they need to play far more night games at Wrigley Field--possibly as many as 50 games.

Former pitcher Curt Schilling surmises (correctly) the reason why: because the Cubs play most of their home games during the day, the biological clocks of the Cubs roster is different then other MLB teams. As such, once they reach the playoffs, the team ends up playing poorly when most of the games are in the evening hours.